| Oh you know, just some silly little use cases like... * building on not-linux -- you know, where almost all personal computers exist. Gee, wouldn't it be nice if most computers could actually compile your code? * Having only one build config, only having to maintain one publication (ugh need to maintain deb, rpm, nix, chocolatey, brew, whatever the hell arch and suse use...) * reproducible builds -- distros are well-known to randomly modify libs, making "foo x.y.z" in yum and apt basically random. It's not even clear to me I'll get the same thing from apt on different days! * Iterating and collaborating on fledgling projects which rightly wouldn't be accepted into a distro -- or just iterating on a timescale smaller than "months" * local deps -- using system-global deps (as preferred by most linux package managers) is known to be a huge nightmare for any language package manager that's tried. Hence pyvenv. Hence why so many have thrown up their hands in disgust and just started dockering all the things. (inb4 someone comes to explain that Nix or whatever probably magically solves all these problems) |